It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your testimonies are my meditation.

How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey.

For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool in his foolishness.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

If thou smitest a scornful person, the ignorant shall take better heed; and if thou reprovest one that hath understanding, he will be the wiser.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

When the scornful is punished, the ignorant take the better heed; and when a wise man is warned, he will receive the more understanding.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

A {reputation} [is] to be chosen {rather than} great riches; {favor is better than silver and gold}.

A wise man is strong,
And a man of knowledge strengthens his power;

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don't betray the confidence of another;

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Oil and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

A servant will not be the better for words; for though he understand, yet will he not regard them.

A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul:

Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.

Then I saw that [even secular] wisdom [that brings sorrow] is better than [the pleasures of] folly and self-indulgence as light excels darkness.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

As for the people that have been before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their joy the greater through him. This is also a vain thing and a vexation of mind. (v17) When thou comest into the house of God, keep thy foot and draw nigh, that thou mayest hear: that is better than the offerings of fools, for they know not what evil they do

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Lo! what, I myself, have seen - Better that it should be excellent to eat and to drink and to see blessedness, in all one's toil wherein one toileth under the sun, for the number of the days of his life, in that God hath given it him, for, that, is his portion:

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

Wisdom is better than riches; yea, much more worth than the eyesight.

Indeed, wisdom gives protection, just like money does, but it's better to know that wisdom gives life, to those who have mastered it.

Wisdom given as strength to a wise person is better than having ten powerful men in the city.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Wish the king no evil in thy thought, and speak no hurt of the rich in thy privy chamber; for a bird of the air shall betray thy voice, and with her feathers shall she betray thy words.

Cease not thou therefore with thy hands to sow thy seed, whether it be in the morning or in the evening: for then knowest not whether this or that shall prosper, and if they both take, it is the better.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

{How is your beloved better than another lover}, O most beautiful among women? {How is your beloved better than another lover}, that you adjure us thus?

Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

that he may the better creep into the caves and rocks, and into the cliffs of hard stones, from the sight of the fearful judge and from the glory of his Majesty.

By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Therefore, As a tongue of fire, eateth up straw, And a flame reduceth, dry grass, to powder, Their root, like rottenness, shall become, And their blossom, like dust shall ascend, - Because they refused the law of Yahweh of hosts, And the utterance of the Holy One of Israel, they despised.

And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

“The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild [all the better] with ashlar (hewed stones);
The sycamores have been cut down,
But we will replace them with [expensive] cedars.”

That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;